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Analysis: U.S. arms sales to Asia set to boom on Pacific "pivot"

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U.S. sales of warplanes, anti-missile systems and other costly weapons to China's and North Korea's neighbors appear set for significant growth amid regional security jitters.

 

Is it time to regulate $60 billion-a-year arms trade?

Delegates from around the world gather in New York on Monday for the start of month-long U.N.-hosted negotiations to hammer out the first-ever binding treaty to regulate the global weapons market, valued at more than $60 billion a year.

 

U.S. Approves $6 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan

The move is sure to enrage China and could possibly complicate the Obama administration’s push to get Beijing’s cooperation on Iran.

 

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